We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the 'Hippocratic corpus' to him, and the ancient biographical traditions of his life are not only late, but also written for their own promotional purposes. Yet Hippocrates features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine – and the physician himself – should be. In both orthodox and alternative medicine, he continues to be a model to be emulated. This book will challenge widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about the history of medicine in ancient Greece and beyond) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Why do we continue to use Hippocrates, and how are new myths constructed around his name? How do news stories and the internet contribute to our picture of him? And what can this tell us about wider popular engagements with the classical world today, in memes, 'quotes' and online?
Author(s): Helen King
Series: Bloomsbury Studies In Classical Reception
Edition: 1
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2020
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 273
Tags: Hippocrates; Hippocrates: Influence; Hippocrates: In Mass Media
Cover
Half title
Title - Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
introduction
Chapter 1: What we know about Hippocrates
Chapter 2: What we thought we knew
Chapter 3: Sabotaging the story: what Hippocrates didn't write
Chapter 4: Needing a bit of information: Hippocrates in the news
Chapter 5: Hippocrates in quotes
Chapter 6: Let food be thy medicine
Chapter 7: The holistic Hippocrates: 'Treating the patient, not just the disease'
Conclusion: Strange remedies?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
